Ascolta, a subsidiary of ViON Corp., has launched to offer cybersecurity products and services as part of efforts to address threats to the government and private sector. Steven Picot, president of Ascolta, said Wednesday the company aims to go beyond the traditional cybersecurity approach “by applying emerging cyber readiness technology, …
Read More »IBM Unveils Analytics Offering for Hadoop; Beth Smith Comments
IBM has launched its new in-Hadoop analytics offering that works to leverage the R language, machine learning and data science functions to help enterprises extract business insights from their data. The company said Tuesday the IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop product supports data querying and visualization at an enterprise scale. “In our fast-paced world, …
Read More »Peter Guerra: Booz Allen Launches Online Program to Train Data Scientists
Booz Allen Hamilton has introduced an online information technology course designed to educate enrollees on data analysis and management through game-like instruction. The Explore Data Science program consists of more than 40-hour virtual lessons across multiple proficiency levels and aims to teach participants to turn raw data into actionable business …
Read More »Razorsight’s Chris Checco: Data Science Becoming Influential in Businesses
Chris Checco, president and chief analytics officer of Razorsight, says data science is growing its influence in business as companies continue adopting analytics products and finding more applications for insights generated from data. In an interview posted recently on the Data Science Weekly blog, Checco discussed how data science has been turning into a business …
Read More »Cubic Subsidiary to Bring Predictive Analytics to Urban Transportation Industry; Matthew Cole Comments
Cubic‘s transportation systems business has established Urban Insights Associates, a new subsidiary in Washington, D.C. to serve the urban transportation industry through data-driven offerings. The company said Monday Urban Insights will leverage predictive analytics and data science to help transportation planners and agencies collect and analyze data to make decisions …
Read More »Karen Dahut: Booz Allen Marks Strategic Innovation Group’s Year of Partnerships
Booz Allen Hamilton has marked the first anniversary of its Strategic Innovation Group, which Executive Vice President and group head Karen Dahut said was launched last year to foster creativity and partnerships across the company with an aim to deliver new solutions and products. “Booz Allen created the Strategic Innovation Group to capture …
Read More »Booz Allen Unveils Data Science Guide; Joshua Sullivan Comments
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has released a guide to data science intended to help organizations turn big data into assets. The Field Guide to Data Science features best practices on how data science works, establishing the data science team, integrating principles and models into data science strategies, handling and analyzing …
Read More »Booz Allen Joins UMD STEM Jobs, Education Initiative; Josh Sullivan Comments
Booz Allen Hamilton has joined a program run by the University of Maryland that helps place students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics at participating companies through internships and jobs. The company will also sponsor a computer science student with a $5,000 scholarship and contribute to a …
Read More »Deloitte, Kaggle Form Data Analytics Partnership; Anthony Viel Comments
Deloitte Australia has partnered with Kaggle Inc. to combine data organizations in an effort to help customers gain business insights from data analytics, according to an IT Wire article. Peter Dinham writes Deloitte and Kaggle will merge their respective 6,000 analytics personnel and 100,000 data scientists in Kaggle’s first global partnership. Anthony …
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